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Is it possible to restrict users from creating channels folders, and files within teams?
Since there is a known syncing issue between teams and sharepoint. It probably is not a good idea to use teams for file management.
Do you know if it possible to restrict users from creating channels folders, and files within teams?
Hellomadame206
Since the files you upload to a channel in Teams are stored in the underlying SharePoint site, you will have to workaround this in order for it to "work" like you want.
1: Edit the permissions on the channel libraries in Teams so the users cant create new items
2: Create other libraries directly in the SharePoint site and give the users permissions there
Allthough, you should probably skip step two and just get a Non-Office365 group connected SharePoint site for storing files then.
Kind Regards
Oliwer sjöberg
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I needed to restrict file uploads in channels because I didn't want fragmentet information and documents created the wrong places. So I closed the restriction in the channels by "starting" folders in all channels, and then restricting access to them in sharepoint. In that way I only allowed team owners to access this folders and not the members. Only leaving the file-structure in General open for adding files for members.
- This thead is yet another mess. Anyone at MS supervising?
Tech Community is becoming a complete nonsense that I'm starting to avoid when looking for real knowledge. Am I alone here?Hi Josu_Lekaroz Could you be specific on what you think is "a mess' about this thread? This community is user-managed, so the more experienced users and heavy hitters like the MVPs and Teams experts (there are at least two of them who responded to the questions in this thread) try to help out the less experienced users.
If you need personalized tech support, you'd want to go to answers.microsoft.com or search the resources at https://support.microsoft.com
As a Team owner you can prevent Team members from creating channels under Manage Teams ... Settings ... Member Settings.
You can't prevent people uploading files through Teams however you could if you go into SharePoint and change permissions there.
So, since there is no way to restrict file or folder creation within teams, sync issues may still arise????StevenC365 .
We will still want users to be able to create files & folders within Sharepoint.
Hellomadame206
Since the files you upload to a channel in Teams are stored in the underlying SharePoint site, you will have to workaround this in order for it to "work" like you want.
1: Edit the permissions on the channel libraries in Teams so the users cant create new items
2: Create other libraries directly in the SharePoint site and give the users permissions there
Allthough, you should probably skip step two and just get a Non-Office365 group connected SharePoint site for storing files then.
Kind Regards
Oliwer sjöberg
- You can restrict channel creation both on a tenant level and on a per teams basis ( restrict members)
Regarding files you have to set custom SharePoint permissions on the different libraries
Adamadam deltinger How to restrict channel creation on a tenant level?
Mina_Medhat Hello, have a look here as it's where you turn off private channel creation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-policies
I'm afraid I can't verify myself right now..
This is also for private channels just to put it out there https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/skype/new-csteamschannelspolicy?view=skype-ps
As for the standard channels the Set-Team cmdlet can at least be used.
-AllowCreateUpdateChannels"Setting that determines whether or not members (and not just owners) are allowed to create channels."
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/teams/set-team?view=teams-ps
adam deltinger standard channel at tenant level?
